Change 2634
Originally Posted : Fri Nov 19 05:39:24 2004
Posted by : Razan
Title : death xp loss change
OK, so I've changed slightly the XP you lose when you die. I've
had a flood of requests for this change come in with a lot of
very good arguments. I think this was an oversight originally
in our newer xp loss and I'll explain why.
Firstly, recall that your xp loss on death is capped at 1mil xp.
25% of that you cannot recover, %25 of it you can get back from a
great top-notch rez, and 50% of that you can get back from having
a wicked-good standing with your god.
OK, so here's the problem with that. Our previous XP loss was
capped at 500k. The problem we were seeing is people were having
no resurrection scrolls and not enough clerics on / hell, even
existing for all the jihads. This was seen at least several times
in PK fights to be a real problem. The deal is, if you die you
basicaly had to sit out completely else pay a massive XP penalty -
meaning more than you used to have to pay.
I decided to change this so that it's now capped at 500k xp loss.
Firstly, I did not reduce the xp loss at other levels - the CAP
is just changed. So think of this change as really mainly effecting
heros. Secondly, what I like about this is that it ENCOURAGES
people to participate in the jihad to increase their standing so
that they can pay less and less for a death but *DOES NOT* penalize
them (overly) if they have not chosen to participate. We all
know that jihad standing has many good benefits, what I dislike
about the previous system was that it FORCED you to have a good
standing or else get raped. Also, there are very few players out
there that really have a good enough standing for this to matter
and now with this new system I hope more and more people will
boost their standing so as to make their deaths less painful.
This should allow PKers to get right back into the fight for
the same old XP loss of 500k, this hopefully will be more
reasonable and in line with the potential XP gain from PKing.
Hopefully that makes sense to everyone.
- Razan.
